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Now would I asses their performance SINCE 2010 a success or failure?: Failure. Why?

1-Yukio Hatoyama promised in his campaign that he would give Japanese people more of a say in what happens at the okonawa base, and even went as far in saying it would be shut down or relocated, but once they won the election he stepped down as prime minister. Research: JSTOR; Frances Mccall Rosenbluth, Japan in 2010, Messy Politics but Healthier Democracy The Domestic and International Politics of Funemna (subtitle)
2- The controversial decision to arrest the Chinese trawler captain in lands that could be claimed by either taiwaan, japan or china. Approval ratings of kan severely dropped. (SAME ARTICLE as #1; subtitle is F ORE I GN P OL I CY: J APAN AND T HE RI S E OF CHI NA
3-Hatomaya and Ozawa(both of the DPJ) stepped down from office considering he was taking illegal funds for campaigning (JSTOR SUBTITLE: I N T R A - P A R T Y P O L I T I C S A N D T H E S T R U C T U R E O F T H E D P J) Japan in 2011, Cataclysmic Crisis and Chronic Deflation, F R A N C E S M C C A L L R O S E N B L U T H
4- After the tsunami in Fukashima, DPJ leader at the time was FURIOUS when he found out about the lax supervision of the nuclear power plants and immedietly fired people, and took a strong response to it to ensure followers of the DPJ as well as citizens in whole that it would be taken care of, but then they were like ehhh maybe we will open things back up again, which is fine if there is good supervision and only reopen ones not build ones, but it just seems like they took initiative at first to calm environmentalists down, and then softened up as time went buy and changed what they said all along.
(same article as #3, subtitle: P O S T- 3 / 1 1 M A N A G E M E N T)
5- Public Response to the scams, slow movement of government and lack of responsibility inhabited by the DPJ, find articles on that.